AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 May 1917, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

■| DAYLIGHT SAVING REPEAL. lri Australian-N,Z. Cable Association. Melbourne, May 26. The Federal Cabinet lias decided to repeal the Daylight Saving Bill when the House meets in July, PAPUAN OIL INDUSTRY. Melbourne, May 26. The Government oil export who lias returned from Papna reports favorably on the establishment of a valuable oil industry. The fields cover' two thousand miles. Seven bores are already down and have mostly struck oil of the highest quality and prospects generally are good. CHILDREN'S WELFARE CONFERENCE. Sydney, Mar 2(5. At the Children's Welfare Conference resolutions were adopted in .avor of establishing day nurseries in populous suburbs, of an anti-shouting Bill with the view of decreasing the evili, due to drunkenness affecting child life, the forming of an association so as to make permanent the lecisions of the conference. The Commonwealth Statistician, In a paper dealing with the birth rate, said it was impossible for the world's population to increase for any appreciable length of time at the present rate without.exhausting the food supply ' 1. every cultivable acre on the world's surface was cultivated and the increase of'tbe world's population only 1 per cent, per annum, and the present population only 1500 millions, oomplete'exhaustion of the food supply would be reached in doO years.

The Superintendent of the State Children's Department, dealing with illegitimacy, said that if many babies were to survive the critical periodr of infancy they must be well paid for by the State, •payment to begin some defined time before birth. METHODIST OONFEREKOE. Melbourne, May 26. At the Australian Methodist' Conference Dr. Fitchett moved that it is the duty of the Christian Church to discover and assess |the moral causes of the war lor the guidance of the Methodist Church. This was followed by a series of resolutions recording tile conference's judgment thereon. These resolutions declare that there is '-.•erwhelming proof that the guilt rests on Germany and Austria, that the fight is one of honor against dishonor, truth again: falsehood, love against hate, the eiliics of Christianity against the ethics of paganism; that it is essentially a spiritual war which will be decided b; spiritual forces, and that right under the reign of the God of Eighteousness must prevail against unrighteousness; that as a result of the war the political ideals and methods of all nations will be lifted to a higher level and the laws of God have a new authority in mutual affairs. Tho conference decided to change the title of "local preacher" to "lay preacher," also that the New South Wales Conference meet tho New Zealand Conference and provide an exchange for the Rev. Mr, Sims.